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Kashf al-Āthār
كشف الآثار
al-Sabadhmūnī السبذموني
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Ḥārithī (also known as al-Sabadhmūnī)
A voluminous biography from Bukhara by a student of Abū Ḥafṣ al-Ṣaghīr, who also compiled a Musnad of Abū Ḥanīfa. Hadith critics called him weak; Ḥanafī writers rejected the charge and used the book.
Used by Teachers, students, family
300 500 700 900 1100 1300
Died 340/952 (AH/CE)
Written in Bukhara, Transoxiana
School Ḥanafī
Language Arabic
Survival In print Copies, editions Printed as Kashf al-Āthār al-Sharīfa fī Manāqib al-Imām Abī Ḥanīfa, edited by Laṭīf al-Raḥmān al-Bahrāʾijī al-Qāsimī, Maktabat al-Irshād, Istanbul, first edition, 1441/2020, two volumes. Publication verified from the supplied scans. Manuscript: Tashkent, Biruni Institute 3105, 326 fols., copied 649/1251 (as reported by Çeker).
The 4th century AH
Documentation (tadwīn) peaks, centred on Baghdad, with Egypt, Bukhara, Khurasan and Mecca contributing.
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“al-Sabadhmūnī, Kashf al-Āthār”, Hanafi Biographical Atlas, https://hanafiatlas.com/works/al-sabadhmuni-kashf-al-athar.html. Data after H. Çeker, Traditions of Biographies in the Hanafi Doctrine, §2.8.